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According to a deep analysis of Mary Meeker's latest AI trend report, the world's largest tech companies are investing in AI research and development and capital expenditure on an unprecedented scale and speed. The report points out that over the past two decades, capital expenditures in the technology industry have been continuously increasing, initially for storing and accessing data, then for distributing and scaling, and now mainly focusing on computing and intelligence. This AI trend report highlights that by 2023, AI has evolved from a research function into an important capital expenditure project. The six major U.S. companies...

According to the latest report from Bloomberg, global renowned music companies including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are in talks with two artificial intelligence startups, Udio and Suno, regarding copyright licensing. The aim of this negotiation is to establish a framework to ensure that AI companies can reasonably compensate artists for the use of their works. These two companies, Udio and Suno, focus on helping emerging music artists create songs; by simply providing prompts describing sounds or song themes, they can generate audio recordings.

China National Petroleum Corporation has officially released its latest Kunlun large model, with a parameter count as high as 300 billion. This milestone advancement marks an important step forward for China National Petroleum Corporation in the field of AI. The development of this large model was jointly created by four major giants: China National Petroleum Corporation, China Mobile, Huawei, and iFlytek. It is expected to complete formal filing by August 2024 and become the first approved large model in the energy and chemical industry. It is worth noting that the launch of the Kunlun large model was not accidental. As early as August 28 last year, China National Petroleum Corporation had launched a 33 billion parameter model.

Recently, several leading technology companies in the industry announced their joint investment to build a super-large artificial intelligence (AI) computing center called "Stargate UAE". This project is led by G42 Company of the UAE and jointly developed with international giants such as OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and Cisco, aiming to promote AI technology innovation and application in the Middle East region and even globally.

According to foreign media reports, Perplexity AI is in advanced negotiations for a funding round of up to $500 million, which is expected to push the company's valuation up to $14 billion. The round is being led by renowned venture capital firm Accel, marking the rapid rise of Perplexity in the AI search sector and its aim to challenge Google and Microsoft-backed OpenAI's dominance in search. AIbase observed that this news has sparked extensive discussions within the tech community, with investors showing extremely high enthusiasm for AI's potential to reshape the search market. Valuation surged

Microsoft recently unveiled a remarkable research project – WHAMM (World and Human Action MaskGIT Model). This innovative AI model can generate and run the classic game Quake II entirely within the AI model, producing a playable version in real-time. This research, part of Microsoft's Copilot Labs, explores the potential and boundaries of generative AI in interactive media. A revolutionary breakthrough.

On March 27th, Alibaba launched its first multimodal large model, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B. This model boasts powerful capabilities, handling various input modalities such as text, images, audio, and video, and generating text and natural speech outputs in real-time. This innovative technological breakthrough marks another significant advancement for Alibaba in the field of artificial intelligence. In the authoritative OmniBench multimodal fusion task benchmark, Qwen2.5-Omni achieved...

A powerful newcomer has emerged in the fintech arena. The Fin-R1 model, jointly developed by Professor Liwen Zhang's team (SUFE-AIFLM-Lab) at the School of Statistics and Data Science, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Caiyue Xingchen, has been officially open-sourced, attracting significant attention due to its impressive performance. This financial specialized large language model, based on Qwen2.5-7B and trained with reinforcement learning, achieves leading performance across multiple financial benchmark tests. Remarkably, Fin-R1 surpasses most models of comparable size, and even many significantly larger models, despite having only 7B parameters.

Recently, former U.S. President Trump announced a massive artificial intelligence investment project named 'Stargate', with a budget of up to $500 billion. The plan is jointly funded by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, with Trump appearing alongside the CEOs of these three companies—Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, and Masayoshi Son—at the launch event. Masayoshi Son will serve as the project's chairman, and the joint involvement of these three billionaires has attracted considerable attention. However, unexpectedly, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX...

Today, iFLYTEK Spark 4.0 Turbo has undergone a comprehensive upgrade, with significant improvements in its seven core capabilities—text generation, language understanding, knowledge Q&A, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, coding ability, and multimodal ability—surpassing the powerful performance of GPT-4o in math and coding.